Summary
Volodymyr Palant is a cloud-native platform engineering leader and CTO with 11 years of experience building scalable, secure, and compliant production systems. He excels at bridging infrastructure, security, and development to accelerate delivery through automation, DevSecOps, and multi-cloud orchestration across GCP, AWS, and Azure. Known for hands-on work—ranging from Kubernetes and Octopus Deploy pipelines to ElasticSearch migrations and realtime data pipelines—he drives cost optimization and audit readiness (SOC2/NIST) for complex environments. He has deep roots in WordPress plugin architecture and data integration, having refactored WP-Stateless and built real-time sync services that removed local media dependencies. As a mentor and architect, he pairs roadmap-level judgment with day-to-day engineering craftsmanship to shorten feedback loops and reduce toil. Based in the Raleigh–Durham area, he brings a practical mix of platform thinking and plugin-level attention to detail that few CTOs retain.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Master's degree Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics
English, Ukrainian, Russian